The stage has been set for the election of a new leader for Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa, the Maori Anglican Church.
The 2017 session of Te Runanganui – the biennial synod of the Maori Church – will convene at Whakatu Marae in Nelson on the late afternoon of Thursday, September 7, and run through till Sunday afternoon, September 10.
By far the weightiest task before its 130 members…is the nomination of a successor to the late Archbishop Brown Turei as Pihopa o Aotearoa, or Bishop of Aotearoa.